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I think it’s absolutely absurd,” he said on the Junkies. “And I would not want to be Mike Rizzo in September when the Nationals are fighting to win that division and get to postseason and then go to postseason, and have to tell the 24 other guys on that roster, oh by the way, we’re gonna take a perfectly healthy Stephen Strasburg and shut him down.
And until that Inverted W that he throws with [on] his front side, until he corrects that and gets his front side pulling his back side through, he’s gonna have problems.
Mitch thinks its absurd they aren't going to keep pitching Strasburg because his arm is a ticking time bomb?
52.Guapo posted on August 27, 2012 at 02:28 AM #hit 0 | hit 0
Well, nobody's mechanics were quite as exquisite as Mitch Williams's.
To buttress your case, you point out a hiccup of several days in early September, but again ignore the the long delay that Gabel says lasted from the 25th of September to the 8th of November, which deprived the Third Army of air support and satisfactory topographical conditions when offensive operations resumed. That's not insignificant either.
It wasn't a hiccup but an event that drastically shifted the nature of Allied offensives from there on out.
I'm not trying to claim any other delays were not insignificant. The general point was that no plan survives contact with the enemy and the Lorraine campaign should have been altered at the beginning when the nature of the battle had changed. Patton and the Allied commanders refused to do that.
And I am saying that in order to handle it better the Allies would have had to drastically alter everything they did after D-Day and they probably wouldn't have even come through Lorraine.
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< 1 2Mitch thinks its absurd they aren't going to keep pitching Strasburg because his arm is a ticking time bomb?
It wasn't a hiccup but an event that drastically shifted the nature of Allied offensives from there on out.
I'm not trying to claim any other delays were not insignificant. The general point was that no plan survives contact with the enemy and the Lorraine campaign should have been altered at the beginning when the nature of the battle had changed. Patton and the Allied commanders refused to do that.
And I am saying that in order to handle it better the Allies would have had to drastically alter everything they did after D-Day and they probably wouldn't have even come through Lorraine.
And nothing of value was lost.
Though he did run out of resources at Cold Harbor.
If only their balloons would have adopted the Death From Above doctrine they might have pulled it out.
Or as Napoleon once said, "I'd rather fight allies than have allies."
I responded. Thx.
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